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Hi..I am thinking of taking a position in San Quentin or Folsom/ Sacramento...if you work there would love some feedback about how you enjoy your work, working for the state etc...thanks!

I was going to take the cert exam but ...why? I wouldnt get paid more and no one seems to care, its epensive nd dificult...so why?

I wouldnt work in SQ as your first job in corrections...very heavy duty gangs etc. The place is huge very old drafty and windy. They pay more since no one wants to work there! You have to apply on line, its the only way they accept apps. The whole sy...

1. Don't call it NorCal or Frisco. 2. Each facility is VERY different. 3. Nurses make $7050/mo plus bonus if you qualify 4.Overtime in CA is 1.5 after 8 hours and double after 12 hours 5. They have hired so many nurses overtime has been cut way back....

Oh come on, if an LVN wants to be an RN, go to school and become one. If an RN wants to be an NP, get the necessary education and degrees. A test of any kind is just a small part of what is necessary. A person has to learn to THINK like an RN, not ju...

In my experience that kind of increase is followed by firing of CNA's and having nurses do primary care to make up for it. NOT worth it. Now RN's get to change beds, clean poop etc and ruin their backs while trying to do IV's on 5 acute care patient...

I'm starting in corrections at medical facility next month...great pay and benefits...I'll see how it goes...you can quit you know if you dont like it.

Part of the problem is the other nurses too...I was on a unit at UC San Francisco and was told by other nurses "nurse on this unit care enough our patients we dont have TIME to take a breaK"...meaning if I did, I would be thought of as uncaring...so...

First, try not to work in the same facility in which you were a CNA. Its a very difficult transition to get them to accpet your authority. And YES it falls on you for any poor care being given. Long term care is known for these problems. Just pray th...

Be careful with direct entry MSN you come out with alot of knowledge but no real intro to nurisng culture...and little clinical experience. When you say you have an MSN, there alot of high expectations about your knowledge that frequently aqrent s...

Letting an LVN only test to be an RN is like learning to ride a bike reading a book...doesnt work

The web site info is hard and sketch to understand? Can't even understand your question! CA corrections is complicated because they were just taken over by the Feds. All the benifits are on line. No social securty taken out...and medical staff are g...

Getting hired by CA corrections is a challenge...so many layers of bureaucracy to deal with. I hear they are discontinuing MTAs and hiring LVNs. But they are hiring lots of RN's..they were taken over by the Feds the end of last year since healthcare...

Well, I am sure it will cause more disussion but this seems to be yet another problem with foreign trained nurses..my issue is with language barriers...they say they have to speak acceptable English but I find it generally to be very limited and dang...

YUP, all of the above. I'm just so tired of it...I thought it was me for a long time till I found this site!

Maybe RN's should take a test and be an MD?

Why I want to quit? All of the above...all the responsibility and no authority to improve the situation. Managers, I think are the main reason...and hospitals that fire the CNA's because of the staffing limits required by law in CA. So I have fewer ...

I have been a nurse in CA for 15 years and never even heard this was an issue! hospitals cant even give us a safe locker...this is ridiculous

I dont hate LVN's, I hate the system that allows so many different levels of nurses that the public has no idea. I also hate that I have my own patient load and have to be responsible for patients of the LVN, meaning that unless I just sign everythin...

Hi..I am an RN in California and have no idea what a PN is...could you enlighten me?

She will have to learn to take the mc tests, thats the bottom line. Also, there are so many good junior college schools for nursing paying that much money is unneccessary. She needs to take year or two and figure things out for herself...nursing scho...

Nursing schools subsitute quantity for quality, they seem to think if they give you lots and lots of work it means more, so people get burned out on writing papers on "three ways of knowing" and such nonsense.

Nursing schools subssitute quantity for quality, they seem to think if they give you lots and lots of work it means more, so people get burned out on writing papers on "three ways of knowing" and such nonsense.

Does that mean CNA's are nurses too? The public doesnt know the difference with them either.

Too many people go the LPN route intending to only do it for a short while, get sidetracked and 20 years later still wish they were an RN. I'd say do the LPN thing now but DROP it if accepted into the RN school You will lose money in the short run b...